Herbivorous Dinosaur Fossil Found in Japan

KOMPAS.com – Millions of years ago, dinosaur bipedal stalks the coast of the Asian continent. Invention dinosaur fossils herbivore in Japan This shows traces of ancient animals in the Asian region.

Dinosaur this has a knife-like finger, which is used to slash the plants from removing the stomach contents of its prey.

This type of dinosaur found in Japan belongs to a group known as therizinosaurus, a bipedal three-legged dinosaur.

Herbivorous Dinosaur They lived during the Cretaceous period, about 145 million to 66 million years ago.

Recently, researchers from Japan and the United States described the youngest therizinosaurus fossils ever found in Japan.

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Dinosaur fossils in Japan it was the first to be found in Asia in marine sediments.

The dinosaur fossil represents a newly described species, with the researchers naming it Paralitherizinosaurus japonicus.

These findings have been published online online on May 3 in the journal Scientific Reports.

The hook-shaped fossil, which includes part of the spine, part of the wrist and forelegs, was discovered by a different research team in 2008.

Since then, the fossil has been kept in the collection at the Nakagawa Museum of Natural History in Hokkaido, Japan.

Japanese scientists discovered the dinosaur species in Nakagawa, a district in Hokkaido located in the northernmost part of Japan’s main islands, a place known for its rich fossil deposits.

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